Chapter 019 Martyrdom

Nozu Daoguan strode into the hall. Li Xi, the emperor sitting on the dragon chair, stood up in a hurry and bowed to Yejin Daoguan: "Your Excellency, please take your seat."

Li Xi is thin and weak, which is more like a weak scholar than the emperor of a country.

Nozu took a big step, walked to Li Xi's side, and sat in a chair that sat flat with the dragon chair.

This chair is the position of Nozu Daoguan. In the Qinzheng Hall, the emperor and the queen sit side by side in the dragon chair, and their side is Nozu Daoguan.

This position shows that the supreme ruler of North Korea is Nozu Daoguan. In the eyes of the Japanese, this seat shows the strength of Japan, while in the eyes of the Koreans, this seat represents endless shame!

ye jin dao guan said to Li Xi, "Your Majesty, I heard that the queen is in poor health? Is it serious?"

"I felt cold, fever and coughed last night, so I couldn't attend today's banquet." Li Xi said carefully.

ye jin Daoguan shouted harshly, "Your Majesty, this is a state banquet, and the Wenwu of the Manchu Dynasty has come. As the mother of a country, the queen should come with illness even if she is not feeling well. How can she be so lazy? I think she must appear!"

ye jin dao guan's words echoed in the hall, and the No. 100 civil and military minister standing in the hall, his face changed sharply.

In any case, Li Xi and Min Ziying are the emperors and empresses of the Korean Empire. In name, they are the supreme rulers of the Korean Empire. Nozu Daoguan scolded the emperor and queen so much, as if the parents were scolding their son! This is simply ignoring the existence of the Korean Imperial Court!

Li Xi looked helplessly behind him. He, the emperor, could not decide whether the queen would appear or not. When the Japanese didn't come, he couldn't control Min Ziying. When the Japanese came, he couldn't make the decision.

Prime Minister Jin Hongji took a step forward and said to Nozu Daoguan, "Your Excellency, the Queen is not feeling well and can't attend the banquet. I apologize to the Commander on behalf of the Empress."

Nozu snorted and stopped talking.

What Nozu Daoguan is worried about is not whether Min Ziying will attend the banquet, but whether Min Ziying knows whether she is still in the palace.

However, when he saw Jin Hongji, Nozu Daoguan was a little relieved.

Although Min Ziying was not seen, Jin Hongying, Min Ziying's confidant, was also there, and the emperor expected that Min Ziying would not leave the palace.

If Min Ziying is forcibly forced to attend the banquet at this time, it will inevitably cause strong dissatisfaction from the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs. Nozu Daoguan had to give up.

The banquet officially began. Emperor Li Xi picked up his wine glass, stood up, raised his glass to the Minister of Culture and Armed Forces and said, "All Aiqing, the New Year is coming. Please raise your glasses and use this glass of sake with me to wish me good weather in North Korea and the country is safe."

Jin Hongji raised his glasses as the first ministers.

ye jin dao guan said coldly, "Your Majesty, the current name of the country should be the Korean Empire." He noticed that Li Xi was talking about "North Korea" rather than the "Korean Empire". This emperor had been muddle-headed all his life. It was really ridiculous that he had said the national name wrong on such an important occasion.

Li Xi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Your Excellency, I can't obey! Six hundred years ago, the name of the Li Kingdom established by my ancestors is North Korea. Although my Li Xi is weak, how can the name of my ancestors be changed casually?

Nozu Daoguan was furious: "The Korean kingdom has long ceased to exist. With the help of the Japanese Empire, North Korea has already achieved independence. She is now the Korean Empire! Your Majesty, don't forget your current position!"

The ministers of the Man Dynasty did not say a word and looked at Li Xi on the dragon chair. They suddenly found that Li Xi, who had been lazy in the past, seemed to have suddenly changed into a person. There was a dazzling light in his eyes.

Li Xi drank all the glass of wine, gently put down the glass, sat in the dragon chair, and straightened up: "I am a mediocre person, lacking intelligence and courage. I should not have been sitting in this position. However, I know that the Japanese want me to sit here, because with me, the Japanese can stay in North Korea justly..."

"Your Majesty, you have drunk too much!" Nozu Dao scolded, and he also noticed that today's Li Xi seemed to be a different person.

"Your Excellency is joking!" Li Xi said slowly, "Although I am lazy, I know that no nation can gain independence under the bayonet of foreigners!"

Nozu stood up suddenly: "Your Majesty is drunk! Come on, help Your Majesty to rest in the back!"

Lu Wenjun led seven or eight special service personnel and rushed to the hall.

Li Xi suddenly stood up and laughed: "My dear, life is just a drunk, but I'm awake now, but many people are still drunk in their dreams!"

The corners of Li Xi's mouth shed blood and his body collapsed softly.

Lu Wenjun rushed to Li Xi's side with a vigorous walk and saw Li Xi's seven orifices bleeding. Obviously, he was poisoned by arsenic.

Lu Wenjun was shocked: "The emperor is poisoned! Someone poisoned it! Come on, control everyone in the palace!"

Li Xi's face showed a faint smile: "Lu Wenjun, don't stir up the public. I ate the poison myself, and no one poisoned me!"

"What are you going to do?" Lu Wenjun's face is pale.

"Some people betrayed their ancestors, and I had no choice but to take him alive, so I had to become a fierce ghost and ask for his life!" Li Xi stared at Lu Wenjun with hatred, and his eyes were bleeding.

Lu Wenjun was so scared that he shouted strangely and stepped back a few steps.

Nozu Daoguan knew that the big thing was not good, so he rushed to Li Xi's side and shouted anxiously, "Where is Min Ziying?"

Li Xi said in a weak voice, "I'm sorry, Commander, she's gone!"

Li Xi stopped breathing with a sarcastic smile on his face.

Last night, after receiving a request from the occupation forces to hold a state banquet, Min Ziying decided to leave overnight. She has received a secret report that Li Xuanqing has led the Restoration Army and has begun to move from Yuanshan to Pyongyang. According to the plan, once the Restoration Army occupies Pyongyang, it will establish a new court, and Min Ziying will be the queen of the new court.

Min Ziying knows very well that Nozu Guandao is going to detain her and all the princes and ministers on the pretext of the state banquet. If she doesn't leave, she will never have a chance.

However, the Japanese army and the special service department took the palace like an iron barrel, and it was extremely difficult for Min Ziying to get out.

At this time, Emperor Li Xi appeared in her bedroom.

Min Ziying has always looked down on Li Xi, although this man is the emperor and her husband. In her eyes, Li Xi is such a coward that she doesn't even have time to go to bed! Min Ziying just reluctantly said a few words to Li Xi out of etiquette, and then urged Li Xi to leave quickly - she is now thinking about how to leave the palace and is not in the mood to talk to Li Xi at all.

However, Li Xi, who has always been obedient, has become very stubborn. Instead of leaving the bedroom, he calmly told Min Ziying that Zhou Charter was not in Linjinjiang or Pyongyang, and he led Zhangjun to capture Lushun!

Li Xi told Min Ziying that this was a good opportunity to recover Pyongyang. He hoped that Min Ziying would leave the palace overnight, rush to North Korea, and join Li Xuanqing's glorious army. When Zhang Jun and the Japanese had no time to look after the battle in the Linjin River, he would capture Pyongyang and establish a new court. This court is not a puppet of the Japanese. It is not a vassal of the Qing Dynasty, but the Koreans' own court!

Min Ziying couldn't believe his ears. The muddle-headed emperor suddenly changed into a person and became extremely insightful and independent!

Li Xi even arranged a way out for Min Ziying to dress up as a small eunuch and get out of Jingfu Palace with the help of the palace guard. Li Xi told her that Jin Hongji had sent someone to answer outside the palace. Once Min Ziying left the palace, Jin Hong sent someone to escort her out of Seoul and rushed to Yuanshan.

Although Min Ziying was suspicious of Li Xi's arrangement, she had no choice. In this way, Min Ziying sneaked out of the palace overnight.

What she didn't know was that Li Xi, the man she had always despised, had made up his mind to die when he arranged all this.

Li Xi is very clear that once Min Ziying succeeds in Pyongyang and establishes a new court, the legitimacy of this new court will be greatly reduced because of the existence of the Seoul court. Because after all, Min Ziying is a woman and his queen. If he is still alive, the queen will become a queen, which is indescible. The Japanese can use this to declare the Pyongyang court illegal.

So, after dawn, when the banquet was about to begin, Li Xi took the poison and then calmly walked to the Qinzheng Hall.

This mediocre man in his life realized the dignity of an emperor at the last moment of his life!

"The emperor passed away!" Jin Hong gathered and crawled on the ground and cried bitterly.

In the Qinzheng Hall, the civil and military officials cried in unison.

When the emperor dies, those who are ministers must cry. This is a rule and a procedure. In history, many times, the crying of ministers is actually just a ritual that has nothing to do with grief.

However, today, in the Qinzheng Hall of Jingfu Palace in Seoul, the crying of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty is heartfelt grief and indignation.

They witnessed the death of the emperor, the brutality of the Japanese, and the suffering of North Korea!

Their crying was for the emperor, who used death to maintain human dignity!

Their crying is also for this alien country!

Nozu looked at the grief-stricken ministers in the hall, and his mind was in a mess.

The emperor died, the empress ran away, the Seoul regime lost its legitimacy, and the existence of the Japanese army in North Korea also lost its basis.

"Where did Min Ziying go?" Nozu Daoguan drank it.

Lu Wenjun bowed and said, "Commander, I think she must have gone to Pyongyang."

"sent your people to get her back!"

"Your Excellency." Lu Wenjun said, "I think it's not a bad thing if Min Ziying really goes to Pyongyang. At least, she won't cooperate with Zhang Jun!"

Nozu Daoguan nodded silently: "Maybe you can delay Zhang Jun!"